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HISTORIC STRUCTURES CONTINUED 1012 RIVERSIDE DRIVE I Ills house was built in 1920 by Frank Gilmer, an attorney with the firm Shively, Gilmer, Arnold & Doror. Mr. Gilmer sold the house in 1927 to Leslie Morehouse, the editor of the South Bend Tribune. He owned the property until 1937 when it was sold to Duncan O'Coner, superintendent of South Bend Lathe. 1059 RIVERSIDE DRIVE This Bungalow style abode was built in 1914 by Edgar and Violet Rohrer, owners of a grocery store located at 412 N. Lafayette Street. Mr. Rohrer died qtly after the house was completed. Violet con- ed to reside there with their daughter until 1942. Miss Violet Rohrer, daughter of Edgar and Violet, was a teacher, she resided at this address until 1988. HPC Historic Preservation Commission Office Location: 125 S. Lafayette, 1 st Floor Office Mailing Address: 227 West Jefferson Blvd. South Bend IN 46601 Phone: 219- 235 -9798 Fax: 219- 235 -9578 Email: historic @michiana.org • • RIVERSIDE DRIVE OCAL HISTOR1C DIST • HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION OF SOUTH BEND & ST. JOSEPH COUNTY 2001 NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY Riverside Drive Local Historic District was design — by ordinance in 1985. Riverside Drive is a relative— intact example of an early Twentieth - Century middle - class residential development. The area was located northwest of the original town of South Bend and re- mained undeveloped until the latter half of the Nine- teenth-- Century. Development began when Horatio Chapin's successors platted the Chapin Place Addition in 1890 on land that had been the family estate. The neighborhood grew quickly between 1902 and 1918 when eighty-one percent of the residences were built. The oldest building (circa 1898) constructed in this dis- trict is the Queen Ann style house located at 1007 Riv- erside Drive. The rapid growth of the area can be attrib- uted to three factors, one, the easy access to the streetcar line, two, the scenic views of the St. Joseph River and three, the creation of Leeper Park in 1895. The early residents of this district represented a cross section of the community including professionals, busi- ness owners and skilled workers. Among them we r� three mayors, W. Riley Hinkle, Jessie Pavey and II George Schosk. The district consists of Queen Anne, Prairie, American Four - Square, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial, Bungalow and Period Revival styles of architecture.